Wilhelm Crisolli

Wilhelm Crisolli (20 January 1895-12 September 1944) was a Major-General of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded the 6th Panzer Division during World War II.

Biography
Wilhelm Crisolli was born on 20 January 1895 in Berlin in the German Empire of Italian descent. Crisolli won the Iron Cross during World War I, before he proceeded to serve in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He also gained the Sudetenland Medal in 1938 during the annexation of the Sudetenand from Czechoslovakia, and later fought in Poland, France, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union during World War II. Crisolli was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 15 July 1941 during Operation Barbarossa, in which he took part in the offensive to the Caucasus and the Battle of Kursk.

In 1943, Crisolli was dispatched with the 20th Luftwaffen Sturm Division to Italy to defend it from the Allied Powers, who had landed in Sicily on 10 July 1943. Crisolli was killed in action at Pistoia in Tuscany by Italian Resistance partisans on 12 September 1944.